Determined School Admission Arrangements for 2020 / 2021
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Determined School Admission Arrangements for 2020 / 2021 1 | P a g e Determined School Admission Arrangements for 2020 / 2021 The Department of Education (DfE) published revised Codes (Admissions 2014 & Admission Appeals 2012). Telford & Wrekin Council’s admission arrangements take account of the revisions contained within the new Codes. Regulations require all Admission Authorities to determine, before the relevant school year, the admission and admission appeal arrangements which are to apply for that year. The co-ordinated arrangements apply to the admission of pupils to all maintained schools and academies in the relevant area, so that parents apply only to their home Local Authority (LA) and receive one offer of a school place. Any necessary consultation on the co-ordinated scheme must be for a minimum of six weeks and be completed by 31 January in each year. The governing bodies of voluntary aided, foundations schools and academies are their own admission authorities and therefore are responsible for consulting on their admission arrangements. Oversubscription criteria for all community and voluntary controlled schools When the school is oversubscribed, after the admission of pupils with an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP), the priority for admission will be given to those children who meet the criteria set out below, in priority order: 1. Those children who are or were previously looked after by Telford & Wrekin or any other local authority. A 'looked after child', or a child who was previously looked after, but immediately after being looked after became subject to an adoption, child arrangements, or special guardianship order. These children are also known as children in care. 2. Children previously in state care outside of England and who have ceased to be in state care as a result of being adopted, and then 3. Children who live in the school’s defined attendance area. If places are unavailable for all of these local children, then places will be given first to: a) Those children who have exceptional health reasons where there is written medical evidence that admission to the school is essential for their medical wellbeing. The information must confirm the exceptional medical reason and demonstrate how the specified school is the only school that can meet the defined needs of the child, and then 2 | P a g e b) Those children who will have on the day of admission a brother(s), sister(s), step brother(s), step sister(s),half-brother(s) or half-sister(s) living as a family at the same address and who attend the school c) Pupils in receipt of early years pupil premium or pupil premium at the point of closing the application round d) Other children living in the school’s attendance area 4. Any places which remain available will then be allocated to applicants from outside the school’s defined attendance area in the priority order a) to c) 5. Children of staff - children whose parent / guardian is a member of staff who has been employed at the school for two or more years at the time of application or has been recruited to fill a vacancy for which there is a demonstrable skill shortage. 6. Other children living outside of the school’s attendance area. Please note: in the cases of Donnington Wood Church of England Junior School, Newport Church of England Junior School and Wrockwardine Wood Church of England Junior School there is an additional criterion which is applied before the consideration of in area children - this is those children who have attended the linked infant schools. The early years pupil premium is additional funding to support disadvantaged three and four year olds in early years settings. Its aim is to close the gap between children from disadvantaged backgrounds and their peers by providing funding to early years providers to help them raise the quality of their provision. It has been available in all local authority areas in England since April 2015. The pupil premium is additional funding given to state funded schools in England to raise the attainment of disadvantaged pupils and close the gap between them and their peers. Pupil premium funding is available to both mainstream and non-mainstream schools, such as special schools and pupil referral units. It is paid to schools according to the number of pupils who have been: registered for free school meals (FSM) at any point in the last 6 years looked after by the local authority (in care) for one day or more those who have left local authority care through adoption, or via a Special Guardianship, Residence or Child Arrangements Order Children of staff The admission of the children of staff is defined in the admissions code as being in either or both of the following circumstances: 3 | P a g e a) Where the member of staff has been employed at the school for two or more years at the time at which the application of admission to the school is made, and/or b) The member of staff is recruited to fill a vacant post for which there is a demonstrable skill shortage. Please see our composite prospectus for further details www.telford.gov.uk/admissions 4 | P a g e Coordinated Scheme for Admissions into Reception and Year 3 for children in an infant school All children within Telford & Wrekin are entitled to start school in the term after their 4th birthday. Parents / guardians may defer entry to school until later in the academic year or until a child reaches compulsory school age (the beginning of the term after their 5th birthday), or may request for their child to attend part-time. Where summer-born children defer entry until September they will have to re-apply for a place in the following year’s admission round. An application must be made to transfer from a nursery class to primary school even within the same school; there is no automatic allocation of a place. In exceptional circumstances the local authority may agree that a child can be admitted to a school outside their normal age group. Parents / guardians of summer born children may apply not to send their child to school in the September following their 5th birthday. These decisions will be based on each individual case. Please refer to the Deferred Entry Policy on www.telford.gov.uk/admissions The coordinated scheme of admissions into Reception and Year 3 in junior schools is designed to ensure that all children applying for Reception places and Year 3 places in junior schools receive only one offer of a place in a Telford & Wrekin school. All primary school applications for entry in September 2020 are being co-ordinated across local authority boundaries. Parents / guardians of pupils who are resident within Telford & Wrekin should complete the Telford & Wrekin common application form to apply for any school within the borough or in any other local authority area. Pupils of Telford & Wrekin primary schools who live outside the borough will receive their application form from their home authority. Telford & Wrekin parents / guardians can list up to four school preferences on their application form. Parents / guardians should list, in order of preference, all the maintained schools and academies at which they wish their child to be considered for a place including those in neighbouring authorities. Telford & Wrekin operates an equal preference scheme. This means that we offer a place at the highest possible preference. We will try to allocate a place at your first preference school by applying the oversubscription criteria. If we cannot, we will then consider your second preference alongside other preferences expressed by families for that school. If we cannot allocate this we will then consider your third preference in the same way, and so on. Some Own Admission Authority Schools require additional information from parents / guardians to operate their admissions criteria. Forms seeking this supplementary 5 | P a g e information will be sent out by individual schools and should be returned direct to the school concerned. All applications are completed on line www.telford.gov.uk/admissions Completed common application forms should be returned to the School Admissions Team by 15 January 2020. Applications will be considered and in the case of oversubscribed schools the oversubscription criteria should be applied. Please note that Hadley Learning Community (primary phase) and Teagues Bridge Primary School have a shared catchment area. St Peter’s Bratton also has a shared catchment area with Dothill Primary School. Linked infant and junior schools in Telford & Wrekin are: Donnington Wood Infant School Donnington Wood Junior School Newport Infant School Newport Junior School Wrockwardine Wood Infant School Wrockwardine Wood Junior School Church Aston Infant School does not have a linked junior school. Most Year 2 pupils transfer to Moorfield Primary School. Moorfield has 17 additional places in Year 3. Admission to junior school For admission to junior schools priority is given to children who have attended the linked infant school and the oversubscription criteria is then applied if necessary. Any places which remain available will then be allocated to children who have not been attending the linked infant school in Year 2, following application of the oversubscription criteria. 6 | P a g e Coordinated Scheme for Admissions into Year 7 The coordinated scheme of admissions into Year 7 in secondary schools is designed to ensure that all children applying for secondary school places receive only one offer of a place in a Telford & Wrekin school. All secondary school applications for entry in September 2020 are being co-ordinated across local authority boundaries. Parents / guardians of pupils who are resident within Telford & Wrekin should complete the Telford & Wrekin common application form to apply for any school within the borough or in any other local authority area.